14 people, either those who need a transplant or have relatives who do, are stepping up their hunger strike after having already gone without food for six days and are threatening to stay on the steps of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood until they meet with the hospital’s CEO.

Gustavo Galvez needs a kidney so isn’t hunger striking but was planning to camp out. He told WBBM if he doesn’t get a transplant he will die in a few years.

A similar group launched a strike last year that they say produced an agreement that, they say, hospital officials have reneged on.

WBBM has reached out to Northwestern Hospital for comment.

Nancy Harty

I was a fan of WBBM Newsradio 780 long before joining the staff as a reporter in January, 2006.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, graduated from the University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign and earned a master’s degree in Public Affairs Reporting...